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Genre: Drama / Coming-of-Age Director: Sigi Rothemund Country: West Germany

Plot Summary: The film is a poignant coming-of-age drama set in a small German town. The story centers on Michey, a sensitive and introverted 15-year-old boy. Michey feels alienated from his surroundings and his family, particularly his rough stepfather. He finds solace in a secret hideout—an old, abandoned train car—where he retreats from the pressures of the outside world. Novemberkatzen 1986 Ok.ru

The narrative shifts when Michey falls in love with a girl named Katherine. The film explores the awkwardness and intensity of first love, set against the backdrop of Michey’s difficult home life. The title Novemberkatzen (November Cats) is metaphorical, referencing the stray cats born in late autumn that were historically believed to be weaker and less likely to survive—symbolizing the protagonist's feeling of vulnerability and being an outsider in a cold, unwelcoming world.

Using advanced search operators on Ok.ru (site:ok.ru “Novemberkatzen 1986”), researchers have identified at least three distinct user posts between 2010 and 2021. The most intriguing comes from user ID “_radiostation_88” (account now deleted), who wrote: Given the specificity of the query, here are

“My father worked at DEFA as a sound engineer. He brought home a 16mm print of Novemberkatzen in 1987. It was only 22 minutes long. No dialogue, just ambient sound and a piano piece by a composer whose name I’ve forgotten. He told me the director was fired. The cat was a real stray from Odessa. I had the film in my basement until 2005, but there was a flood. Now all I have are three photographs. I put them on Ok.ru for memory.”

Attached to that post were three low-resolution images: a black-and-white still of a woman holding a radio microphone, a color photo of a tabby cat sitting on a reel-to-reel tape deck, and a production note in German and Russian that reads: “Scene 14 – November broadcast – do not use red scarf (too political).” “My father worked at DEFA as a sound engineer

These images are still re-shared in Ok.ru groups dedicated to “Soviet unrealized projects.”